Another matter, “You shall craft the boards for the Tabernacle.” Rabbi Avin said: This is analogous to a king who had a fine visage. He said to a member of his household: ‘Create me [a portrait] like it.’ He said to him: ‘My lord king, I cannot create one like it.’19I cannot make a portrait that will truly capture your fine appearance.
He said to him: ‘You with your paints and I with my glory.’20Do what you can with the materials you have available, even if it does not match my true beauty. So too, the Holy One blessed be He said to Moses: “See and craft” (Exodus 25:40). He said before Him: ‘Master of the universe, am I a god that I can craft [vessels] like these?’ He said to him: “In their form” (Exodus 25:40); with sky blue and purple and scarlet wool.
Just as you see above, so craft below, as it is stated: “Acacia wood standing upright”; just as it is in the heavenly host. If you craft it below as it is above, I will leave My supernal entourage and rest My Divine Presence in your midst below. Just as above, “seraphs are standing” (Isaiah 6:2), so, below, “acacia wood standing upright”; just as there are stars above, so, too, below. Rabbi Ḥiyya bar Abba said: It teaches that the golden hooks in the Tabernacle appeared like the stars visible in the sky.